9th Circuit Court of Appeals: Still looney after all these years

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(02-10-2012 12:09 AM)myotch Wrote:  Civil rights applies to every single person who can claim protection under the Constitution. Opponents of gay marriage, however, don't see a ban on gay marriage as a civil rights issue. The comparison of gay marriage to 60's civil rights or to the suffrage movement falls flat on it's face. No one is saying gays can't be gays, gays can't vote, or gays have to sit at the back of the bus. I guess everyone here, and I will include Greg as well, believe those who physically assault gays should be prosecuted under state laws regarding assault. I believe gays have the right to speech, assembly, religion and conscious, the right to guns (http://www.pinkpistols.org), rights against the quartering of soldiers, a right to a trial by jury, and rights against excessive punishment, fines, and prosecution. I have a hard time seeing where, constitutionally, gays have a civil rights issue regarding the government not recognizing gay unions.

14th Amendment--equal protection under the law.